How This List Was Made
Every video comes from my study of 16,331 long videos from 388 channels. A video is here if its views were 5x or more the median of the ten long videos the channel posted before it.
- Long videos only. Shorts are left out.
- Channels whose normal is under 100 views are left out, because a tiny normal makes the multiplier look huge.
- The thumbnail you see is today’s. The creator may have changed it after the video took off.
- Views and multipliers are from the September 2026 pull, so they will be a little behind YouTube.
A big multiplier tells you the video beat its channel. It does not tell you the thumbnail was the reason, so treat these as ideas to test, not rules.